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NARRATIVE PRACTICES ILLUMINATE lives lived amid illness with meaning, with movement, with moments of being. Sometimes hidden, always mysterious, simultaneously understood and misunderstood, illness interrupts the no-illness with an
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“Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.”
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“So simply to look on anything, such as a mountain, with the love that penetrates to its essence, is to widen the domain of being in the vastness of non-being. Man has no other reason for his existence.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“Walking in mist tests not only individual self-discipline, but the best sort of interplay between persons.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“Walking thus, hour after hour, the senses keyed, one walks the flesh transparent. But no metaphor, transparent, or light as air, is adequate. The body is not made negligible, but paramount. Flesh is not annihilated but fulfilled. One is not bodiless, but essential body.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“When the aromatic savour of the pine goes searching into the deepest recesses of my lungs, I know it is life that is entering. I draw life in through the delicate hairs of my nostrils.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
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